Sentences with word «fantasist»

In a perfect demonstration that horror and trauma are the stuff of real, everyday life and not the macabre vision of fantasists, Cries and Whispers marked Bergman's recovery as one of Europe's greatest film directors.

A multiple - award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a blood - chilling roller - coaster ride of a novel, a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror.

I will now be counting the many dislikes from the many fantasists on here.

You and the vast majority of us all know Wenger signed a massive dud in Xhaka, but from the two other fantasists on this thread, there are still some out there who just do not use their eyes.

On her conviction, Huhne said: «Constance Briscoe has been revealed as a compulsive and self - publicising fantasist.

When Life magazine announces its final issue, negatives asset manager and serial fantasist Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller, who also directs) is charged with supplying the final cover image.

His work has been compared to such literary fantasists as Jules Verne and J.R.R. Tolkien.

According to the blurb, «Based on the video game filmmaker Guillemo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) called a «masterpiece,» Japan's leading fantasist Miyuki Miyabe has crafted a tale of magic, loss, and love that will never be forgotten.»

Based on the video game filmmaker Guillemo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) called a «masterpiece,» Japan's leading fantasist Miyuki Miyabe has crafted a tale of magic, loss, and love that will never be forgotten.»

Nobel fantasist Michael E Mann has made much in his complaint against me, and in the discovery requests to which I responded last Wednesday, of the million trillion bazillion investigations of him around the world that have «exonerated» him.

The real fantasists here are those like CJ who imagine that they can stand judgment on 200 years of cumulative scientific knowledge, by rubbishing all those men and women who have established the understanding we now have, including the scientific evidence for global warming resulting from human activities that is now incontrovertible.

Former Liberal adviser Peta Credlin has become — or perhaps always was — an egomaniacal fantasist.

In making its case for the assumed superiority of indigenous cultures, the statement invokes the authority of historical fantasist Vine Deloria, author of Custer Died for Your Sins and God is Red.

Not unlike the formalists, but (being English) less theoretical were the men Cantor calls «the Oxford fantasists»» Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Frederick Maurice Powicke.

THIS IS WHY THESE NAIVE FANTASISTS HAVE DISLIKED YOUR TRUTHFUL POST.

I can't make up my mind if you are a complete fantasist or you are being had by somebody who works in the Arsenal Shop who is having you on.

Call me a blinkered delusional fantasist..

Yep — the media inspired fantasists will come out with any nonsense.

To suggest that playing Theo and dropping either Ramsey or Ozil (not sure what you would propose) was the key to beating Chelsea is an easy card to play, and as with all this revisionist, fantasist stuff, impossible to prove.

But you will be safe as he doesn't visit fantasists!

some of us fans are not deluded and fantasists so taking a hard look at our chances this season and not been filled with optimism does not make us less of a fan than overly optimistic fans like yourself who live in denial!!!

You come home from a hard day's work and rather than the expected dinner on the table served by someone dolled up and wearing provocative lingerie your bombarded with how Wenger is a meglamaniac fantasist with a midget fetish?

The silver lining though is that finally the team have a manager in Brian McDermott who cares more about the performance of the team and how that reflects on Leeds United Football Club than a narcassistic fantasist who was only in for the ego boost a record number of promotions would bring.

Some loyalists are trying to offset it with the fact that Labour staved off defeat in Stoke — as if retaining a rock - solid seat against a carpetbagging, tweed - wearing fantasist counts as some kind of triumph rather than the minimum ask of an opposition party in midterm.

2/27/2017, By: The Fight Scholar — Even the most extravagant fantasist couldn't have predicted Haye vs Bellew a year ago.

Morris lets McKinney hold the camera for long stretches; she's a bright and funny self - dramatizer, and almost certainly a mad fantasist.

Click for showtimes and tickets — JR Byzantium Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) shows there's plenty of life left in the undead - bloodsucker genre: His Irish - seaside horror story features a brilliantly brooding performance by Saoirse Ronan as an adolescent vamp, and the kind of mythic, adult - fairy - tale imagery — a mountain waterfall running crimson red — at which this incomparable film fantasist excels.

The set is completed with the disappointing one - off Freddy Vs. Jason (2003), a horror movie smackdown between two archaic icons anonymously directed by Ronnie Yu, once an inventive fantasist just marking time here.

In a career that stretches back to the mid-1980s, del Toro has carved out a distinctive niche as a Latin fantasist with a flair for fanboy fetishism.

Wes Anderson's early films Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) took place in more or less the real world, but concerned fantasists who tried to make their imaginings concrete (or at least papier - mâché) reality.

by Walter Chaw J.K. Rowling is more plotter than writer or editor, more rambling fantasist than disciplined storyteller — explanation there as to why her Harry Potter novels aren't classics so much as very popular stories for children.

The ultimate time bandit is Gilliam himself, a guerrilla fantasist raiding the distant past in this film as exuberantly as he raids the not - so - distant past in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), the future in Brazil (1985) and The Zero Theorem (2014), the present in The Fisher King (1991) and Tideland (2005), and the future and the present in Twelve Monkeys (1995).

Ed (Ben Chaplin, fresh off our screens as a suave fantasist in «Apple Tree Yard») is an almost fanatically rational (albeit wildly smug) lawyer, whose insistence on dissecting and debating every interaction outside the courtroom — as well as in — infuriates his wife Kitty (the always brilliant Anna Maxwell Martin).

The hero, a dysfunctional fantasist played by Ryan Gosling, then proceeds to revive the bear by giving it mouth - to - mouth resuscitation on the break table.

Any sensible person would have given up years ago but sometimes pig - headed dreamers win in the end, so thank you to all of the ill - paid fantasists and believers who have joined to make this longstanding dream a reality!»

You are clearly a tiresome fantasist troll who still lives with his mother.

The first YA novel in 14 years from renowned fantasist Le Guin, this trenchant coming - of - age allegory, set in a community where long - standing rivalries are driven by clans» inherited, extrasensory «gifts,» combines earthy magic with universal themes of young people testing boundaries and questioning tradition.

Many travelers are essentially fantasists.

- The Guardian (UK) «Flanery's brilliantly sly and funny book updates Nabokov's Cold War story of despotic power to the present day... The fear that we are watched is no longer the province of isolated fantasists but a new fact of everyday life.»

In a magnificent feat of world building, Victoria Strauss has created a unique, vividly imagined land, society, and religious culture while spinning a riveting tale of duty, revelation, destiny, and magic that places her in the top ranks of contemporary fantasists.

But even if Miéville does eventually write one book in every genre (and we can't wait for his romance), we can't ignore the ingenious fantasist's unique spin on the police procedural.

Miyamoto was more of a blue - sky fantasist, and a cheerful presentation would immediately set the game apart — so that was in.

Another outing for the Tropico franchise, beloved of power - crazed fantasists the world over.

Through May 16 Holland Cotter: William Powhida, art world vigilante, virtuoso draftsman, compulsive calligrapher, fantasist autobiographer and recently self - announced gallery owner and art dealer, has a semi-solo show at Schroeder - Romero well worth catching.